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Vexed. At Coburg, where the Grand Duke Cyril (TiME, Dec. 10, 1923) has openly proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and reigns over a mimic court, both the action of the emigres in disregarding Cyril's claims and the reply of the Grand Duke Nikolai, likewise ignoring him, touched off sulphurous words of scorn...
...referred to and know whereof I speak. I am reliably informed that Miss Wills was never within a point of winning the second set, nor did I see any of the American papers claiming that she "had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman." Cyril Tolley was close to the line, in the best position to judge the ball in the disputed incident which occurred in the eighth game with the score...
...match by the stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur golf-champion?told her to come back...
...school system, which relegated private education to a special, a subordinate place in the democracy's pedagogical program. It is most improbable that the appointment of a new headmaster at The Hill, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, Taft or Exeter would occasion the widespread editorial comment that greeted the appointment of Dr. Cyril Norwood, master of Marlborough College, as first lay master of Harrow, last month in England...
...more than there is a definite need for one to waste his time watching Cyril Maude and Edna Best, both charming people, struggle with the sententious sentiments of that literary milliner who has so successfully covered the wits of the reading public with his ornate and verdant cloche bonnet...